R. Toby Pennington

Research interests

Publications

• A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

  Nature · 2022 · 10.1038/s41586-022-05318-4

• Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

  Science · 2019 · 10.1126/science.aay7976

• Tropical savannas and dry forests

  Current Biology · 2018 · 10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.014

• A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny: The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG)

  Taxon · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.12705/661.3

• Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

  Science · 2016 · 10.1126/science.aaf5080

• Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes

  South African Journal of Botany · 2013 · 10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001

• Legume phylogeny and classification in the 21st century: Progress, prospects and lessons for other species–rich clades

  Taxon · 2013 · 10.12705/622.8

• Revisiting the phylogeny of papilionoid legumes: New insights from comprehensively sampled early‐branching lineages

  American Journal of Botany · 2012 · 10.3732/ajb.1200380

• Neotropical Plant Evolution: Assembling the Big Picture

  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society · 2012 · 10.1111/boj.12006

• Systematics, biogeography, and character evolution of the legume tribe Fabeae with special focus on the middle-Atlantic island lineages

  BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2012 · 10.1186/1471-2148-12-250

• Evidence for Adaptation to Fire Regimes in the Tropical Savannas of the Brazilian Cerrado

  International Journal of Plant Sciences · 2012 · 10.1086/665973

• Neotropical Seasonally Dry Forests: Diversity, Endemism, and Biogeography of Woody Plants

  Island Press/Center for Resource Economics eBooks · 2011 · 10.5822/978-1-61091-021-7_1

• Evolutionary islands in the Andes: persistence and isolation explain high endemism in Andean dry tropical forests

  Journal of Biogeography · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02644.x

• Contrasting plant diversification histories within the Andean biodiversity hotspot

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 10.1073/pnas.1001317107

• The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 10.1073/pnas.0904786106

• Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903410106

• Woody Plant Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology in the Tropics: Perspectives from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

  Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120327

• Selecting barcoding loci for plants: evaluation of seven candidate loci with species‐level sampling in three divergent groups of land plants

  Molecular Ecology Resources · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02439.x

• An Overview of the Plant Diversity, Biogeography and Conservation of Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests

  · 2006 · 10.1201/9781420004496-1

• Insights into the historical construction of species‐rich biomes from dated plant phylogenies, neutral ecological theory and phylogenetic community structure

  New Phytologist · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01902.x

• The role of immigrants in the assembly of the South American rainforest tree flora

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2004 · 10.1098/rstb.2004.1532

• Historical climate change and speciation: neotropical seasonally dry forest plants show patterns of both Tertiary and Quaternary diversification

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2004 · 10.1098/rstb.2003.1435

• The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): delimitation of a pantropical monophyletic clade

  American Journal of Botany · 2001 · 10.2307/2657116

• Rapid Diversification of a Species-Rich Genus of Neotropical Rain Forest Trees

  Science · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1061421

• Neotropical seasonally dry forests and Quaternary vegetation changes

  Journal of Biogeography · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00397.x

Current projects

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